Bloomsbury, the UK publisher of the
Harry Potter books revealed some interesting facts about the series:
* If all Harry Potter books ever sold were placed end to end, they would
go around the equator 1.4 times.
* If all the Harry Potter books ever sold were laid flat,
they would cover the area of about 1000 football pitches. Or they could
be used to carpet Monaco 3.7 times.
* On its first day of sale in the UK, Harry Potter and
the Order of The Phoenix sold at a rate of 21 books per second. If all
those books sold in the UK in the first day were stacked up the pile would
be 12 times higher than Mount Everest.
* If one person were to read every Harry Potter book
ever sold - at a rate of one per day - it would take them over 700,000
years to do so.
* The total number of Harry Potter books ever sold is
more than the populations of Britain, France, Germany and Italy combined.
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